Esperance…(1)2 FC Platinum…0 HARARE – FC Platinum learnt a lesson on the importance of clinical finish in high level competitions when they lost to Tunisia giants Esperance in an African Champions League Group B match at the Stade El Menzah in Tunis yesterday. The Blood and Gold, who are the defending champions of the…
HARARE – The Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) has condemned the obstruction of injured citizens from emergency medical services in the wake of the violence that rocked the country during the stay-away. CWG executive director Itai Rusike expressed concern over the consequences of the current situation of violence against citizens’ rights to health and…
HARARE – MDC Alliance said it will not compensate anyone for the damages incurred during the national stay-away. The party’s vice president Morgen Komichi told the Daily News that his party was not behind the crippling protests. This comes after government blamed MDC-Alliance and its alleged allies for organising demonstrations that turned into an orgy…
HARARE – Horror stories are slowly emerging of how the country’s trigger-happy security forces brutalised ordinary Zimbabweans this week — shooting 68 people and leaving dozens others requiring life-saving surgeries nationally following deadly clashes between protesters and law enforcement agents over steep fuel price increases, the Daily News can report. This comes as civil society…
HARARE – Hundreds of panicking shoppers yesterday thronged supermarkets and engaged in panic buying after some of the country’s leading retailers opened their doors to the public following three days of closure due to a crippling national strike. The retailers blamed the panic buying on the three-day stayaway which was due to end yesterday but…
HARARE – United States senators Jeff Flake and Chris Coons — who are both members of Washington’s influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee — have blasted the government over the heavy handedness of the security agents on protestors. This comes after Zimbabweans heeded the call by the militant ZCTU to stay-away from work for three days…
BULAWAYO – Bulawayo mayor Solomon Mguni was choked with tear gas after police allegedly fired volleys of the toxic substance at him while he attempted to make his way to the official opening of the 2019 legal year at the High Court last week. Monday was characterised by commotion as protests erupted in the second…
HARARE – Renowned United States economist and currency expert Steve Hanke says Zimbabwe’s annual inflation rate is at 236 percent, much higher than the official figure of 42,09 percent published by Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStats). The statistics agency reported that year-on-year inflation rate for the month of November 2018 had gained 10,16 percent, surging…
MUTARE – Former Zanu PF legislator for Mutare North Batsirai Pemhenayi has been sentenced four months in jail for the assault of Zanu PF Manicaland official Mike Madiro’s aide during last year’s party primary elections. Pemhenayi and his three accomplices — Wellington Magarasadza, Gilbert Chinyaunzore, Claudius Matuwe — all from Odzi, were convicted after a…
HARARE – Zimbabwe recorded a 17,5 percent increase in the number of tourists who entered the country in 2018, the department of Immigration has said. The number of travellers cleared around the country’s ports of entry and exit rose to 11 172 231 in 2018 as compared to 10 655 625 in 2017. Department of…
